Explain two possible meanings of the word fair in line 7 of shakespeare's sonnet #18.

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Fair is a noun here (“beautiful thing”)

Everything beautiful eventually loses its beauty.

Shakespeare relates his experience of this beauty to a sense of fairness. Implying that he is gifted in his chance just to see this person, this is further reinforced later in the poem, in the last two lines.

In Shakespeare’s day, a time without plastic surgery and knowledge of skin and teeth hygiene, it would have been unlikely to meet a woman who was in the prime of her life and a true beauty.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

because i have already answered your question several times, answering it again would be superfluous.

by elena